Twenty-five years later, Rotterdam studio Shift has created an intervention on the glass facade, turning the pavilion into a spectacle of changing colours and patterns.

"We completely wrapped the transparent pavilion in a colour pattern," Shift director Thijs van Bijsterveldt told Dezeen. "The glass walls allow it to become a three-dimensional graphic piece that changes with the viewpoint of the spectator."

Named CMY Pavilion, the installation consists of a pattern made up diagonal bars of cyan, magenta and yellow - the three colours of the subtractive CMY colour model.

Depending on the viewpoint, the strips of film create secondary "virtual colours" at the points where they overlap – a technique previously used by Studio Dennis Parren to create a lamp that casts coloured shadows.

People standing square on to the pavilion will see a diagonal pattern while others viewing from an oblique angle will perceive a cross-hatch pattern. People inside the pavilion will not see any patterns at all but will instead see a view of the city tinted in three colours.

Tschumi was one of five architects enlisted by the Groninger Museum at the start of the 1990s to create pavilions suitable for viewing music videos.

Structures by Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Zaha Hadid have since been dismantled, while the fifth – by OMA – now functions as a bus stop.

Shift is the first architecture studio to update Tschumi's pavilion, although over 80 artists have created interventions for the structure in the last 25 years.

"In the past, interventions were done by different types of artists that mostly used the glass pavilion as an urban vitrine for their work," said Bijsterveldt. "As architects, we were interested in interacting with the pavilion itself."

Bernard Tschumi's 1990 Glass Video Gallery without Shift's film

Shift's installation will remain in place until September 2015.

Site planNet for CMY filmMagenta position diagramCyan position diagramYellow position diagramDiagram showing the overlay of the colours

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/12/bernard-tschumi-groningen-pavilion-shift-architecture-urbanism-glass-cmy-film-rainbow-hue/feed/4Dentist with a View by Shifthttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/13/dentist-with-a-view-by-shift/
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/13/dentist-with-a-view-by-shift/#commentsSun, 13 Jan 2013 10:00:44 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=281854Dutch studio Shift has converted a suburban house in the south of the Netherlands and turned it into a dental surgery with a new zinc-clad wing (+ slideshow). Located in the small village of Best, the old house follows a traditional vernacular with brick walls and a tiled roof. The extension mirrors the profile of the house, but […]

]]>Dutch studio Shift has converted a suburban house in the south of the Netherlands and turned it into a dental surgery with a new zinc-clad wing (+ slideshow).

Located in the small village of Best, the old house follows a traditional vernacular with brick walls and a tiled roof. The extension mirrors the profile of the house, but is clad with zinc across both its roof and walls.

Shift explains: "This strengthens the iconic quality of the archetype and renders the new extension into a 'contextual alien' that blends into the rural surroundings and at the same time creates a clear new landmark that expresses its new function."

A row of four treatment rooms spans the length of the new wing and each one features a pointed ceiling, formed by the ridge of the gabled roof overhead.

Small skylights direct daylight onto the dentist's chair, while a single long window runs along the rear wall of the four rooms and offers a generous ledge for flower boxes or outdoor seating.

A glazed corridor connects the new wing with the old house, which contains reception spaces, a kitchen and secondary treatment rooms. "The patient enters and waits in a homely and familiar atmosphere," say the architects.

The task of this project was to transform and extend an historical house in the centre of Best, a village in the south of The Netherlands, into a dental practice with four treatment rooms. The central question was how the extension responds to the existing architecture and how it profits from the green setting.

The four new treatment rooms are situated in a new volume that at the same time mimics and contrasts the existing house. Its archetypical volume is derived from the existing house – it takes over the exact same inclination of the pitched roof - while it is being materialized in a very different material. Both the roof and the facades of the extension are clad with zinc. This strengthens the iconic quality of the archetype and renders the new extension into a "contextual alien" that blends into the rural surroundings and at the same time creates a clear new landmark that expresses its new function.

The new volume provides each treatment room with an archetypical space of a miniature house. Its high ridge and steep ceiling results in a vertical space that connects to the perspective of a patient in the dentist chair. A roof light in each treatment room enables the patients to relate with the outside, even during treatment. A large ‘flower window’, that also serves as a bench, floods the rooms with daylight and provides both the staff and their patients with a framed view of the surrounding green.

All secondary functions of the dentist practice are positioned in the existing house without harming its structure and typical 1930’s details. The patient enters and waits in a homely and familiar atmosphere that, together with the experience of the surrounding garden from the extension, makes the necessary visit to the dentist a (slightly) more comforting experience.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/13/dentist-with-a-view-by-shift/feed/4Vertical Loft by Shifthttp://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/07/vertical-loft-by-shift/
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/07/vertical-loft-by-shift/#commentsSun, 07 Oct 2012 15:00:27 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=252347Dutch architects Shift ripped out the walls of this central Rotterdam townhouse and replaced them with a three-storey bookshelf. The bookshelf, which is 10 metres wide and nine metres high, replaces the load-bearing wall in the middle of the house. Contained in the shelves are kitchen appliances, wardobes, a walk-in closet and even a doll's […]

]]>Dutch architects Shift ripped out the walls of this central Rotterdam townhouse and replaced them with a three-storey bookshelf.

The bookshelf, which is 10 metres wide and nine metres high, replaces the load-bearing wall in the middle of the house.

Contained in the shelves are kitchen appliances, wardobes, a walk-in closet and even a doll's house in the children's bedroom.

The steel stairs have been fitted close against the shelves to make all the books easily accessible.

The house is situated on a block of dilapidated nineteenth century buildings which was bought in its entirety by a developer to be restored. Each house was stripped bare, leaving the new homeowners free to make their own changes inside.

"What used to happen is that the municipality would tear the houses down, but they have beautiful facades, so it's a good thing to try to keep them, " said Shift architect Oana Rades. "It's been a really successful strategy and it means a lot of people won't move out of the city to the suburbs now."

Vertical Loft by Shift architecture urbanism – extreme makeover of a pre-war city dwelling in the centre of Rotterdam.

This so called do-it-yourself dwelling in the centre of Rotterdam is part of a bold experiment initiated by the municipality to revitalise dilapidated urban areas.

Run-down pre-war dwellings are renovated on the outside and brought back to their monumental appearance, while the interiors are stripped bare.

The empty shell dwellings are primarily bought by enthusiastic young people who transform them according to their specific needs, desires and budgets.

Real estate developers have picked up the initiative and a new demand driven market of urban housing has been generated in recent years.

Site plan

The result is a growing number of contemporary custom-made dream houses within the uniform old fabric of the traditional nineteenth and early twentieth century city.

Ground floor plan

Our dream was to create a vertical loft: a house without walls where all three floors are stitched together into one continuous space. The interior of the new house is organized by one oversized closet that connects all floors. It functions as a storage device for the whole house. This piece of XXL-furniture, measuring 10 meters in length and 9 meters in height, replaces the load bearing middle wall of the original house.

First floor plan

Its modular system integrates kitchen appliances, bookshelves, wardrobe, and a walk in closet. The introduction of a central void reinforces the presence of the closet. The void enables diagonal views through the house in which the closet is experienced in its full height. It also makes daylight penetrate far into the 14 meter deep house. Two steel stairs in the void make the bookshelves accessible and create a vertical circulation along and through the closet.

Second floor plan

The extreme makeover of the house is combined with a selective preservation of elements of the old casco. Industrial materials such as the phenol coated multiplex of the closet and the polyurethane flooring are balanced by the longitudinal brick wall that is left bare, the stained glass and the original doors that are restored and re-used. The roughness of the wall, full with traces of the past, tells stories about the continuous makeovers that the house has undergone in the last hundred years.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/07/vertical-loft-by-shift/feed/11Faculty Club by Shifthttp://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/27/faculty-club-by-shift-architecture-urbanism/
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/27/faculty-club-by-shift-architecture-urbanism/#commentsSun, 26 Jun 2011 23:30:56 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=135213Rectangular voids are carved out of the stone facade of this monolithic pavilion in the Netherlands by Rotterdam-based Shift architecture urbanism. Sliding glass windows fill the voids, but are recessed to create sheltered terraces along the front and rear elevations. As part of Tilburg University, the Faculty Club provides a restaurant, lounge and two conference rooms for […]

Here is some more text from Harm Timmermans of Shift architecture urbanism:

Faculty Club, Tilburg University, by Shift architecture urbanism

Tilburg University has extended its campus with the Faculty Club, a multipurpose pavilion for the academic staff and their guests. Shift architecture urbanism took the initiative to reanimate the quintessential quality of the Tilburg campus: strong solitary buildings in the green. The monumental modernism of Jos Bedaux served as a frame of reference. Bedaux designed the first - still the best - buildings for the university in the sixties.

By creating a strong formal relation between the existing university buildings and the new Faculty Club, an ensemble of omni-directional solitaires is created. This enables one to recognize the Faculty Club as part of the university, despite its peripheral forest location and exclusive program.

The Faculty Club is designed as a carved-out-monolith, one simple box in which transparency and massiveness melt together. The central restaurant is carved out from the centre, creating a tunnel-effect in the front façade. In order to strengthen its solitaire character the building is lifted from the ground. The height difference is bridged by outside stairs and a ramp integrated within the front façade.

Each façade has only one window. By recessing each window, outdoor spaces are created within the front and rear façades. These mark the entrance in front and form a large covered terrace in the back. The simplicity and plasticity of the three-dimensional window treatment further contributes to the building’s sculptural qualities.

The primary program consists of a restaurant for eighty persons, a lounge and two conference rooms. The secondary program consists of a kitchen, storage space and other services. The further the functions are situated from the campus, the more intimate and informal the space becomes. The conference rooms look out over the campus, while the lounge completely relates to the forest and the garden. All main functions are physically linked by a transparent axis running the length of the building.

Both the lounge and the restaurant are connected to the carved-out terrace situated at the rear of the building. A four-rail system of sliding windows enables one to open up two-thirds of the total eighteen meters of glass façade. This intensifies the experience of the forest without the visitor having to step outside the building envelope.

The construction principles of the Faculty Club are deceptively simple. In order to emphasize contrasting space and mass, the structure, installations and details are integrated within walls and floors. The starting point for the engineering was the visual absence of technique. Key contractors and consultants were engaged early in the process of preliminary design, enabling the development of precise and project-specific details that consistently support the overall concept. Shift architecture urbanism was responsible for the design, including the execution drawings and the site supervision.

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The result is an integral, durable and engaging building. A monolith carved in such a way as to both profit and profit from the surrounding landscape while maintaining its distinct primary form. Its architecture refers to the heritage of Jos Bedaux by abstracting and updating his formal language. This makes the building into a solidary solitaire, sober and luxurious, massive and transparent, silent and outspoken.